A two-day meeting of the Technical Working Group for durable solutions of displaced persons is being held in Pristina today, it is chaired by the Kosovo Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic. The main topics of the meeting are security, dialogue and reintegration. The meeting is attended by representatives of the OSCE, UNHCR, Commissariat for Refugees and Displaced Persons of the Republic of Serbia, representatives of the Office of the Government of Serbia for Kosovo, several representatives of Kosovo ministries, the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare of Montenegro and Macedonia and others.

Minister Jevtic said that the unstable political situation in Kosovo affects the process of return of displaced persons to Kosovo and that this is the responsibility of Kosovo institutions and society, adding that the protests of the opposition are directed against one nation. “We are witnesses of opposition supporters in Kosovo overturning trucks with Serbian goods several times now, which is unacceptable,” said Jevtic, adding that these acts hinder building trust and reconciliation.

Jevtic said that today's meeting aims to provide recommendations and determine the measures to solve all problems faced by returnees, including security and anything that is considered to be a negative phenomenon in returnee areas. In this context Jevtic noted as particularly problematic the spread of ideas of Islamic radicalism in Kosovo, which he described as an open threat to the whole of Kosovo society.